Supporting postgraduate students in the Social Sciences Faculty of at the

Oxford’s Faculty of Law has a history of over 800 years of • The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies teaching and writing law. It is one of the most prestigious • The Institute of European and Comparative Law law schools in the world, consistently ranked among the top three law schools worldwide, and it is unique in its use • The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre of personalised tutorials at all levels of instruction. The BA in Jurisprudence is Oxford’s undergraduate and Degrees graduates are in high demand both in the legal professions • Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) (1 year) and beyond. Oxford’s Faculty of Law is renowned for • Magister Juris (MJur) (1 year) the size, strength, and diversity of its community of legal • MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (9 month), scholars who are drawn from around the globe. Oxford MSc in Law and Finance (10 month), MSc in Taxation (2 has the largest graduate research programme in Law in year) the English-speaking world, with a community of about • MSt in International Human Rights Law (Part time 22 200 research students engaged in master’s and doctoral months) research across a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary areas. • in Intellectual Property Law and Practice (1 year) The Faculty of Law also hosts a number of research • MPhil in Law (1 year), MPhil in Criminology (1 year), centres including: MPhil in Socio-Legal Research (1 year) • The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights • DPhil in Law (3-4 years), DPhil in Criminology (3-4 • The Centre for Criminology years), DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies (3-4 year) Student application and admissions Data year Degree course Subject/Dept Applications Offers Admitted 2017-2018 BCL, MJur, MSc, MSt, MPhil, PGDip Law 1585 456 337 2017-2018 DPhil Law 414 125 78 Investing in tomorrow’s leaders We are looking for supporters who share Oxford University’s mission, and wish to play their part in addressing the problems of the 21st century through investing in the next generation of thinkers and doers. Single and multi-year scholarships would profoundly change the opportunities and futures of many talented people. Endowed scholarships will secure that impact in perpetuity. Degree 2020-2021 per degree cost Example multi-year scholarship Endowment per student BCL, MJur £39,415 (Home) / £51,420 (Overseas) £154,259 (3 students) £1,285,489 MSc £30,675 (Home) / £39,415 (Overseas) £118,244 (3 students) £985,364 MSc L&F £54,855 (Home & Overseas) £109,709 (2 students) £1,371,364 MSt £69,328 (Home) / £88,311 (Overseas) £176,623 (2 students) £2,207,781 MPhil £23,880 (Home) / £37,960 (Overseas) £113,879 (3 students) £948,989 PGDip £24,155 (Home & Overseas) £72,464 (3 students) £603,864 DPhil £76,023(Home) / £120,848 (Overseas) £241,696 (2 students) £3,021,200 www.development.ox.ac.uk www.law.ox.ac.uk/ Student and Alumni profiles Elspeth Windsor, MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice Christopher Monaghan, BCL in Bachelor of Civil Law Elspeth is the first generation of her family to attended Christopher completed his undergraduate studies in University and was awarded The Kalisher Trust Law in 2018, and is currently at Oxford studying for his Studentship at Oxford to continue her studies. Her BCL. This opportunity was possible with a scholarship research interests include domestic homicide, gendered from One Essex Court. He intends to practice law as a constructs of criminality and victimology. She has barrister specialising in commercial law at apsirations to practise at the Criminal Bar. the London Bar “Undoubtedly the best part of studying at Oxford is “Through the scholarship I have received being taught by, and spending time with, the exceptional I have been able to gain invaluable academic community here. I feel incredibly experience from completing a mini- privileged to continuously find myself sat pupillage at a chambers in London. This around a table with a vast array of brilliant enabled me to work closely with a variety minds engaged in the most stimulating of barristers and has given me a great insight to what life conversations. A day rarely passes where at the Bar would entail. I have also been able to help raise I do not learn something new, and I am awareness for different events the barristers have been acutely aware of what a privilege that is.” organising. This has included an important event about increasing access for women at the Bar. The opportunities Katie Ratcliffe, BCL in Bachelor of Civil Law the scholarship has opened for me are immense. Katie studied for her BCL with funding from the South Chen Chen, BCL in Bachelor of Civil Law Square Scholarship. She is currently undertaking the BPTC at City Law School and teaching Land and Trusts Chen completed her BA in Jurisprudence with Law Law part time at LSE. From September 2019 she will be a Studies in Europe (French Law) in 2018 and is continuing pupil at Essex Court Chambers. her studies at Oxford with a BCL with the assitance of the 3VB Scholarship. She has aspirations to combine a “Being awarded a scholarship for the BCL meant that career at the Bar with academia, and aims to specialise in I was able to spend less time the summer before the English and French private law in the field of responsibility BCL working to save money for the for environmental harm. BCL and more time doing preparatory reading, which made the transition to the “I find it incredibly rewarding to be studying in a BCL workload more manageable. The programme that encourages us, and scholarship also gave me the confidence equips us with the skills, to draw to apply for the commercial Bar. Without connections between seemingly the confidence that such applications might not in vain, I disparate areas of law, and combine would not have dedicated the necessary hours to writing knowledge acquired from multiple applications and preparing for interviews.” existing legal fields into techniques that can be mobilised to solve new Luckystar Miyandazi, MSc in Taxation problems. Problems in today’s society Luckystar graduated in 2018, her studies were supported are increasingly complex, global, and technology-oriented, by the a scholarship from Field Court Tax Chambers. and require us to build on existing legal infrastructure Her aspirations are to be an authority in taxation policy in new ways. The BCL encourages us to think beyond making and research. Specially, providing support to the material and envisage new situations, which I find African countries in their efforts towards improving incredibly rewarding.” national tax systems and building necessary capacities to Marco Cappelletti, DPhil in Law, negotiate on international tax rules. Marco is a DPhil student and Stipendiary Lecturer in “The diversity of students in the class that allows for Law at St John’s College, where he teachesTorts and sharing different experiences, perspectives . This has been made possible with support and engaging in debates on “hot tax from the Graduate Assistance Fund and the Roy Goode topics”. The MSc in Taxation not only Scholarship. covers matters of the law, but also incorporates core elements of economics. “What I find most exciting about my legal studies in It is taught by leading academics and Oxford is that I am pushed to think creatively about the practitioners, who challenge us to think law and to develop my own views without anyone trying through the topics and critically deconstruct them rather to indoctrinate me! Furthermore, there are lots of events than just absorb teachings and reading materials. The such as discussion groups or lunch course and faculty create a learning environment in which, seminars where anyone is welcome to we, as students, get to question, compare, analyse and share his or her thoughts about all sorts come up with our own positions on the various topics of of legal issues. As a research student, I study.” also have the privilege to have frequent academic exchanges with my supervisor, Further information: Rachel Kirwan - Head of Development thus receiving constant feedback on my work as well as careful support and Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, guidance whenever necessary. In brief, I cannot imagine a Hayes House, 75 George St, Oxford, OX1 2BQ better place where a student may wish to spend three or E [email protected] T +44 (0)7515 187385 more years of his or her life doing research and writing his or her doctoral thesis.”